Girly_punk

An update!

Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:22:15 GMT

Hey everyone out there in Live Journal land. I figured I'd give everyone an update since it has been so very long.

So here is my life in recap:

January: We arrived in Reno! We have a cute apartment, one bedroom, but its huge and you can see the mountains out of every window. We are close to downtown but no so close that we are polluted by it and the casinos.

February: Quit my job at Macy's and got a job at Dillard's. I'm just a sales associate but get paid big bucks an hour so I won't complain. Chris proposed the Sunday before Valentine's Day.

March: Chris and I learned to snowboard. He's much better than I am but hopefully once the season starts up again in October/November I can get some more skills.

April: Chris and I went up to Tahoe for the first time. Yes folks, I finally went to California. We went to go camping which was fun at first. We hiked up a mountain and then went down to our site. It started to rain as we tried to cook food so ended up driving to a little bar and eating dinner. While we were gone an angry bear came down to the camp... this is what happens when we leave!!!! Sheesh. It continued to rain the rest of the time and the temperature dropped down to the thirties. It made for a very cold, wet, time but atleast we got some well deserved cuddle time!

May: Chris and I got married the first day of May! It was a small ceremony just the two of us, one of Chris' coworkers as a witness, and the reverand who presided. The actual ceremony only lasted nine minutes but felt longer. We went to the Brew's Brothers for our wedding lunch and then went home. I was so exhausted after everything and ended up going to bed at seven p.m. I'm such a lame newly-wed. ;-)

June: Chris and I decided to add to our family so we bought a seven week old Boston Terrier puppy. His name is Igor and he's so very adorable. I just can't wait until the teething and potty trainign is all done and over with.

July: Oh so hot!! Most days this month have been in the triple digits. We don't have AC in our apartment so it's torture sometimes. It actually makes me happy to go to work since it means I'll be in the AC!

As for the up and coming: Chris and I are saving up for a house. Hopefully by next year we can have a humble abode of our own. I start school again in August. ... That's about it!

I hope all is well for everyone. You can find me on myspace at www.myspace.com/renobound

:)

Round up

Sat, 27 Aug 2005 03:46:34 GMT

So I'm watching boxing (lame) and bored (also lame) but no work this weekend (woohoo). And Goldie says I should let people know my life. So here goes:
Summer is gone now and with it my brother who has been arrested for larceny. (I always knew I was the more level-headed one). He should be out in about ten years.
I have only four more months until I get my AA. I'm halfway to having a bachelors-whee!!
I am still in love with Chris, and thankfully, he is still in love with me.
I'm still at Macy's plodding along, forty hours a week, but my boss is awesome so I'll forgive her for taking away my youth.
When I donated blood on Sunday my phlabotimist was hitting on me and became sullen when I answered his question with a, "Well, actually I have a boyfriend." Woohoo for still being wanted by strange men.
Elissa introduced me to the heavenly baklavah and now I love her even more than before but didn't think such a thing between the vampire lesbian relationship was possible. Only my meatloaf is capable of such, ah me.
Oh- and I'm moving to Reno with the love of my life in December. I guess I'll let Chris come with me. haha. No, really, I love my hamster Coxo. But I love Chris more-- the hamster is sure to die within the year.
Oh- and the owner of UC is going to go to jail for tax fraud-- I guess all mother fuckers get their day. I hope he gets both the full jail time and the full monetary fine. According to the paper he has lots of saved money he didn't disclose on his tax forms. Fucker.
Ok, there is my life in recap. Not too very exciting but I get to sleep eight hours a night and my only worry is the price of gas and Katie in Iraq.

Sun, 22 May 2005 13:11:50 GMT

So long since I've written in here but its my third day off in a row and this is about the time I wish I could be back at work. Perhaps hiding in my hallway that my boss calls scary but knows I love to work in as I attempt the impossible of getting every piece of new clothing out.
Plus-- I'm waiting for Chris to finish his shower.
Time to drink coffee and watch the passerbys.

stupid mornings

Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:45:26 GMT

I hate waking up so early every morning. Its unfair and unjust in my opinion. I'm 21-- I should be out all night drinking, sleeping in until noon, then going to class. I shouldn't be working full time and then going to class.
I dont feel like this sleep schedule is very helpfu. I'm tired quite a bit of the time and have to drink coffee just to stay up.
But, on the brighter side-- I'm auditioning for Jepoardy in three weeks!!! That, and theres only five more workdays left before a Saturday.

For Elissa's entertainment

Fri, 28 Jan 2005 01:36:14 GMT

That book meme: Book/Play Meme,
*bold those you've read
*italicise started-but-never-finished
*underline those you own but haven't gotten to yet
*add three of your own
*post to your livejournal

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. 1984, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte 13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery</u> (My childood favorite!!)
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell (how do you spell amazing?!?!)
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett (blah)
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck 53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Susskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (one word: shabam!)
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel (I was Ayla for Halloween when I was four!)
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski (I get too freaked out everytime I pick it up-- it just sits on my bookshelf mocking me!)
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle (I was surprised how good this was...)
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood (This is why I am pro-choice)
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving (I gave this book to Steve, my old neighbor... do you remember him and his hugs?)
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway (The torture of ninth grade)
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Gross-mith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews (Incest = dirty)(Can we say DYSFUNCTION??)
201. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
202. The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
203. The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan
204. The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan
205. Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan
206. Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan
207. Winter's Heart, Robert Jordan
208. A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan
209. Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
210. A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan
211. As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto
212. Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
213. The Married Man, Edmund White
214. Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin
215. The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
216. Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice
217. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell
218. Equus, Peter Shaffer
219. The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
220. Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
221. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
222. The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
223. Anthem, Ayn Rand
224. The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
225. Tartuffe, Moliere
226. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
227. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
228. The Trial, Franz Kafka
229. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles (My current hell)
230. Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
231. Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
232. A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen
233. Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
234. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
235. A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
236. ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read
237. Grapefruit, Yoko Ono
238. Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde
240. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
241. Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson
242. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
242. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
243. Summerland, Michael Chabon
244. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
245. Candide, Voltaire
246. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl
247. Ringworld, Larry Niven
248. The King Must Die, Mary Renault
249. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein (swoon... I want Michael)
250. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle
251. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
252. The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
253. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
254. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
255. The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
256. Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
257. Xanth: The Quest for Magic, Piers Anthony
258. The Lost Princess of Oz, L. Frank Baum
259. Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
260. Lost In A Good Book, Jasper Fforde
261. Well Of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
261. Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
263. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
264. A Yellow Raft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris
265. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
267. Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
268. Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
269. Witch of Black Bird Pond
270. Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. O'Brien
271. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
272. The Cay, Theodore Taylor
273. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
274. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Jester (LOVE!)
275. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
276. The Kitchen God's Wife, Amy Tan
277. The Bone Setter's Daughter, Amy Tan
278. Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincoln Child
279. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
280. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
281. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
282. The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
283. Haunted, Judith St. George
284. Singularity, William Sleator
285. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
286. Different Seasons, Stephen King
287. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
288. About a Boy, Nick Hornby
289. The Bookman's Wake, John Dunning
290. The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns
291. Illusions, Richard Bach
292. Magic's Pawn, Mercedes Lackey
293. Magic's Promise, Mercedes Lackey
294. Magic's Price, Mercedes Lackey
295. The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
296. Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker
297. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
298. The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love
299. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
300. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison.
301. The Cider House Rules, John Irving.
302. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
303. Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
304. The Lion's Game, Nelson Demille
305. The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust
306. Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh
307. Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
308. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
309. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
310. Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz
311. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
312. War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk
313. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
314. The Giver, Lois Lowry (I'm naming my first born Jonas because of this book)
315. The Telling, Ursula Le Guin
316. Xenogenesis (or Lilith's Brood), Octavia Butler (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago)
317. A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
318. The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
319. The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
320. Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill
321. The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern (or William Goldman)
322. Beowulf, Anonymous
323. The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
324. Deerskin, Robin McKinley
325. Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey
326. Passage, Connie Willis
327. Otherland, Tad Williams
328. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
329. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
330. Beloved, Toni Morrison
331. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
332. The mysterious disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin
333. Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
334. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
335. The Island on Bird Street, Uri Orlev
336. Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover
337. The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
338. The Genesis Code, John Case
339. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
340. Paradise Lost, John Milton
341. Phantom, Susan Kay
342. The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice
343. Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
344: The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
345: Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson
346: The Winter of Magic's Return, Pamela Service
347: The Oddkins, Dean R. Koontz
348. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
349. The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
350. At Swim, Two Boys, Jamie O'Neill
351. Othello, by William Shakespeare
352. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
353. The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats
354. Sati, Christopher Pike
355. The Inferno, Dante
356. The Apology, Plato
357. The Small Rain, Madeline L'Engle
358. The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick
359. 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater
360. The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier
361. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
362. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
363. Our Town, Thorton Wilder
364. Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
365. The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass
366. The Moor's Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
367. The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
368. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
369. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
370. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
371. Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg
372. The Changeover, Margaret Mahy
373. Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
374. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
375. Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo (read this book and you'll become a pacifist-- no question)
376. Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
377. Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
378. The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
379. The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston
380. Time for Bed by David Baddiel
381. Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
382. Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
383. The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley
384. Sewer, Gas, and Eletric by Matt Ruff
385. Jhereg by Steven Brust
386. So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane
387. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
388. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
389. Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz
390. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
391. Neuromancer, William Gibson
392. The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
393. A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr
394. The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
395. The Gunslinger, Stephen King
396. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
397. Absalom, Absalom, William Faulkner
398. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
399. Dreamhouse, Alison Haben
400. Hyperion, by Dan Simmons
401. Prospero's Children, Jan Siegel
402. Gaudy Night, Dorothy Sayers
403. Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
404. Enchantment, Orson Scott Card
405. Cetaganda, Lois McMaster Bujold
406. Beauty, Sheri S. Tepper
407. The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispecto
408. The Patron Saint of Liars, Ann Patchett
409. Sexing the Cherry, Jeanette Winterson.
410. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula Le Guin.
411. Assassin's Apprentice, Robin Hobb.
412. The Axis Trilogy, Sara Douglass
413. Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie
414. Sabriel, Garth Nix
415. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
416. The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris
417. The Hot Zone, Richard Preston
418. The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
419. The House with a Clock in its Walls, John Bellairs
420. The Wings of a Falcon, Cynthia Voigt
421. Gain, by Richard Powers
422. White Noise, by Don DeLille
423. Koko, by Peter Straub
424. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
425. The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
426. Maurice by EM Forster
427. Left Hand of Darkness. Ursula K. Le Guin
428. Slaughterhouse Five. Kurt Vonnegut
429. Martian Chronicles. Ray Bradbury
430. Swann by Carol Shields
431. Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley
432. Solomon Gursky was Here by Mordechai Richler
433. Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams
434. The Chosen by Ricardo Pinto
435. Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
436. Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
437. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
438. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
439. 84, Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff
440. The Dark Is Rising, Susan Cooper
441. The Vintner's Luck, Elizabeth Knox
442. Titan - John Vance
443. Wizard - John Vance
444. Demon - John Vance
445. Kindred - Octavia Butler
446. Stations of the Sun: A History Of The Ritual Year In the British Isles - Prof Ronald Hutton
447. Le Morte D'Arthur - Malory
448. The Elf Queen of Shannara - Terry Brooks
449. The Wishong of Shannara - Terry Brooks
450. The Scoins of Shannara - Terry Brooks
451. The Ruby in the Smoke - Philip Pullman
452. The Tragedy of Cymbeline - William Shakespeare
453. Sybil - Flora Rheta Schreiber
454. Job: A Comedy of Justice, by Robert Heinlein
455. Wizard's First Rule, by Terry Goodkind
456. Triplet, by Timothy Zahn
457. A String in the Harp, by Nancy Bond
458. The Wrong Rite, by Alisa Craig (Charlotte MacLeod)
459. Sacred Contracts by Carolyn Myss
460. Emily of New Moon - L. M. Montgomery
461. Deep Wizardry - Diane Duane
462. Last Train to Toronto - Terry Pindell
463. Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
464. High Wizardry - Diane Duane
465. Blackmantle - Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
466. I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan
467. Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
468. The Claverings by Anthony Trollope
469. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
470. The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
471. Green Darkness by Anya Seton
472. Angels in America by Tony Kushner
473. Betrayal by Harold Pinter
474. Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill
475. The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
476. The Last Vampire, Christopher Pike
477. The Keys to the Street, Ruth Rendel
478. A Widow for A Year-John Irving
479. This Much I Know is True- Wally Lamb
480. Prozac Nation-Elizabeth Wyrtle (This was my Bible from 17 to 20)

2005 begins...

Sat, 01 Jan 2005 16:07:42 GMT

I've been stuck at home the past two days witha UTI but that hasn't hindered my fun really. Sean came over last night and we had turkey and stuffing, blackeyed peas, greens, cornbread and I made carrot cake. I pretty much as in bed all day though. Chris came to bed at around ten. We defintley didn't party hard at all, but there was some champagne.
So this past year has been awesome regardless. I got my car back, got a job at Burdines (and have since been promoted twice in my month and a half of employment), I have my boyfriend (today is eight months), and have made some cool friends. I also have a 4.0 in school. And on a slightly superficial note- I've been a size six since October without dieting or anything like that. Good stuff.
I can only hope this year is better. I don't have any resolutions, there's nothing I want to change about me. Maybe save more money, and get my AA, but those are things that are going to happen this year anyhow with my new positon and school.
Ok-- thats about it.

work work work

Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:39:54 GMT

Blah- -sometimes it feels that all I do is get up and go to work and then, well repeat the cycle. I don't have to be there until 12:30 today though so I'm sitting and drinking tea. Yum!
It's nice and cold and it feels like winter has finally arrived. I know it'll probably get hot out again soon-- but what can you do?
I'm going home this weekend! YAY!!! Although I won't see Goldie because she'll be on her cruise. Lucky girl. But hopefully I can see Tif and I get to see the family too.
Hopefully I can shop as well- that'd be awesome. :)
I still need Chris to tell me what he wants for Christmas... boys are dumb about this sort of thing I've decided.

Mall rat

Thu, 02 Dec 2004 20:20:31 GMT

So today is my day off and for some bizarre reason I went to the mall-- as if I'm not there forty horus a week. Chris and I went to Walden books (a return), the Gap (I got me a jacket priced forty but ended up only being eight), went to Burdines (why?!?!), and bought Chris some video games at Game Stop. Th ejacket is awesome, is small and black and fuzzy with ahoody. Yay!! And it didn't even take up any of my new gift cad. It just used money from last Christmas so I'm going to try and get some pants-- the cute pants today were all a size 8 and there weren't any size 6 so I just looked frumpy in them. Oh well- -I love my new jacket.
Now I'm home drinking some rum and Coke. James and Chris are playing one of the games I got.
I finished my Art class yesterday and took my third exam in English this morning. I didn't do too well on the exam I don't think. I just haven't had much time to study. My final is next Tuesday, so I'm going to study on Sunday which is my weekend free day.
I have to start buying Christmas presents though which is going to be hard to scrape money up. I bought my mom's already though and I know what I'm going to be getting for everyone else on my list. I feel semi-prepared about the gifts, since I wrote them down.
Chris and I set up our tree. It's pretty. It has regular colored lights and green skeleton lights and the star has lights too. A lot of the ornaments are from when Chris was a little kid (mid 1970's...) but I have one up I recieved from Germany last year. We have a little tree in the bedroom with candy canes and we're going to put lights on the corn plant and maybe the rubber tree.
Gil and Nikki visited last weekend and we went to Gator City and Silver Cue. My butt got beat in pool several times.
Gil brought my Deluxe Scrabble BOard and Up-Word Board which is awesome! Chris and I are always playing Scrabble so its amazing to have my pretty Scrabble with all the letters. :)
Sakid and I were suppose to hang out today but she had to work so I may hang out with her after the mall closes. I have to work at nine tomorrow though so I may just drink beer and watch tv tonight. I guess we'll see.

turkey day- gobble gobble

Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:59:43 GMT

Chris and I celebrated are 21 and 31 birthdays. Neither of us really did much.
On my 21 I stayed asleep all day and then made a cake for myself in the afternoon. I only drank one beer but the night before I went out and had a few beers and two shots with Shawn and Josh. I got clothes from Chris and Marvene and Chris gave me a sterling silver scorpion charm on a silver necklace. My mom and other family sent money that went to bills.
On Chris' birthday we hung out with Shawn.Watched tv and his mom and I gave him lottery tickets. I'm also knittting him a black scarf for his birthday. I'm about 1/3 done.
There's no more landscape work now that its cold so I'm working at the mall stocking stuff. It's a pretty nice gig-- forty hours at six dollars. Not great but it'll pay the bills. And even though there is drama in the store I never have to deal with it since I work alone.
Tomorrow we're having Thanksgiving at Marvene's house. Then Chris and I are going to be setting up the Christmas tree. I haven't had a real tree in two years so it'll be nice I hope. Better than a brach of a tree with yarn for garland and foil for a star.
The last day of school is next Thursday with my English final on the following Tuesday. I have A's in both classes.
Gil was suppose to come to Gainesville tomorrow but I don't think he will. It doens't matter either way to me but if he came I only have Sunday off and he's leaving Sunday morning. I don't think he wants to sit aruond with Chris all day and I know Chris doesn't want to sit around with him either.
That's about it.

Please, please help!!!!!

Wed, 29 Sep 2004 05:52:39 GMT

Please Help!
Basically my best friend was injured quite badly due to a drunken altercation.
If anyone was at the University Club on NE 1st, Monday September 27, 2004, and witnessed a fight between two bouncers and an individual.. I really need to know what occured in that altercation.
That man was injured due to the fight and is in danger of having charges pressed against him.
I don't know who is right or wrong in the fight, but I do know things happened to the gentleman that should not have occured.
Please, if you saw the fight at UC two nights ago (MONDAY SEPT. 27) call me at 219-0522 or else you can messenge me back on LJ.
Thank you very much, Nicole Hennegar
P.S. I don't care who was in the wrong or right, I just want to know what exactly occured since the individual in the fight has no memory of what occured due to injuries he sufered to his head during the fight with the bouncers.

Painkillers make everything blurry

Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:12:45 GMT

I got a second degree burn toight from my hand to my clock tattoo. I spent four hours at the ER. I got a codene and prescriptions for more. The one I had is wearing off. So take this post with a grain of salt.
I hate JOrdan. Because of him I can't trust anyone anymore. I feel that he took that away and I can't seem to regain it. I can' trust anyone, especially men. And I know it wasn't him that took it completley....
It was the men who raped me. The man who broke my rib. The guy who said he would never call back.
But it affects me and Chris. I don't think he realizes it. But he's not home yet and all I can think about is how he hits on so many girls when he's drunk. He assures me he only flirts with them and would never sleep with him. But, I can't trust that. Because he is a guy and guys cannot hold my trust.
And I mostly blame Jordan. Whether or not he deny's cheating on me... I'm sure he did. I would bet every lst dime I had on it. Kathy was always slepping over. They were always eating out together. He was at her house twice, sometimes three nights a week. So, yea, call me a skeptic but fucker was cheating on me.
And now even though I know better, I think Chris is cheating on me.
Or maybe 'm just sad because I'm in so much pain but the pills aren't putting me to sleep-- they're keeping me awake and all I want is someone to sit next to. Caress my hair. Care about me and the fact I probably lost my job tonight, and have just not been feeling very happy latley. Some sort of, something?? Acknowledgement maybe.
I don't want my arm to hurt anymore. I want to drink some beer and maybe prolong the affects of the pill because once its gone I won't be able to fill it until tomorrow. Until I can be sober enough, not drugged up enough to drive. I don't like feeling this stoned. I'm to inside my head to stay sane right now. I want to cry some more.

cool air

Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:23:06 GMT

everyone seems so sad in their posts.
all i can think about is that today it is cold enough to need a jacket. i just ate rice and tomatos. my boyfriend is playing bass, nice soundtrack. and there is only two weeks left of my math and science calss.
yay.

Sat, 14 Aug 2004 16:18:06 GMT

I got my food handlers license a few days ago. It as a really easy tes./ Work i fine except for when all the boys leave me to fix code violations during the lunch rush. Somethign about having seven burgers, a few chicken, adn all the fryers cranking out and only me to watch everything.
My mom is comign up on Friday. I haven't seen her in a whil;e so it'll be nice to see her. It'd be even cooler if I could go and see Aunt Shaorn but I spent all my money signing up for classes. I wasn't suppose to go to Fall A but Chris and I decided we don't want to go to the Bahamas during hurricane season.
Right now JLaw is on the phone, Chris is getting pretty in the bathroom adn in a little bit I think we're going to go to breakfast. I'm working six days straight so I want to hang out with Chris a little this morning before I have to go to work at four tonight.

hodgeppodge on stuff

Wed, 04 Aug 2004 15:13:58 GMT

i love nostalgia. this morning in the shower the smell of my noxema took me all the way to high school again. it was nice.
but now i'm awake and that sort of sucks. oh wel-- to work i must go. i got a new job as a cook in a bar. purple porpoise or ator city or whatever you call it. its not bad. its actually fun and i get to work with cool kids like eric and tony. plus it meant i get to say buhbye to auto zone. :)
yesterday chris and i wre hanging out all day when suddenly goldie and charlie came to town!! yay!! whee!!! i was so damn excited. we all went to mcallisters deli for dnner and then maudes for a game of trivial pursuit. i'm going down to melourne in two weeks so i'll get to see her again then, but it was really cool to have her visit me. :)
i'm not going to be going back to school until october. chris and i are going to the bahamas the first week of september and i didn't want to miss that much class especially when i'm doing all half semester classes.
ok-- well the coffee is done and i have to get dressed and go to work. xox

i'm from a small town

Sat, 17 Jul 2004 23:19:30 GMT

but sometimes thats ok.
I went home on Thursday and stayed until this morning. It was nice but I didn't get to see as much as Tif and Goldie as I would like. Goldie did come over and I met Tif for coffee at the Sun Shoppe so it was nice. I saw my big brother and Becca and I went driving all around town.
I got a ton of errands doen going to Bayside and BCC and such. Bec and I walked around downtown Melbourne and went to the bookstore. We came home and watched Mulan and painted Jimmy's room pink and tan. Well, ok all I painted was a second coat of pink. :) Strange colors for a teenage boy but I have doubts about my little brother sometimes.
Last night my mom took me and Bec to see Harry Potter 3 tho!! Yay!! I want a Hippogriff goddamnit! Why do wizards get all the cool pets????
Ok-- thats my update for now.

an awesome day

Mon, 12 Jul 2004 03:54:58 GMT

today i huing out with elissa-- we wtn to maudes, i ited her in trivial pursuit. a rare occurence.
then i went to shamrock with sean and jon. allie and fat bitch came by... and i guess they assumed tht jon was chis. teir exact words "thats pathetic." we laughed and drank and went to wayward where i saw rio. it was nice. fat bitch was, well, a bitch. but in the end i laughed all the way home. pathetic, my friends? at least thier they are not bitchy over wieght girls. and this is mean but i have had several reasons that i could have written this, but did not. chirs and i are sill together and in love and not fat, bitter, bitches like bobbie brooker.
what is it bitch? you jealuo sthat i found someone to love an be with me despite the fact you think i have aids amd am a slut. well fuck you whale, he loves me and you, of all bitches, cannot ever change that.
rot alone forever. we are forever. and if not forever, longer than you will ever know love.

a good day

Fri, 02 Jul 2004 04:57:19 GMT

i woke up and realized how lucky i am to wake up next to him every mornign.
there was some drama yesterday with people angry at me and instead of confronting me they said hurtful things about me when they were angry. it was partly my fault but it still made me cry for hours, but i went over and talked to shawn adn we worked it out. we talked for over an hour-- discussed how we were feeling and why and in the end hugged one another and mended whatever hurt was there.
this morning chris made us coffee and we sat hand in hand drinking it and sitting in the silence that is so constant but comfortable. two months now of living with him...
we went and washed our cars and had lunch. he came home with the rain and laid in bed with me until i had to go to work. he was alseep when i got home. but he bought me my favorite beer and left it in the fridge with my favorite kind of pizza (cheese and mushrooms and green peppers). it must be love if he knows my favorite pizza.
happy, euphoric happiness

afraid to blink

Fri, 25 Jun 2004 05:01:12 GMT

every day i wake up afraid that i've been living in a dream only to find chris still right next to me. my home is still around me. my jobs are still waiting for me. my car is still in front of the door. my friends and family are still loving me.
goign home was a good experience. it was the best trip home since before i moved out. my little brother and sister are growing up-- along with my older brother and i. there's is so much more physical however. joy is all grown too.
i'm just so happy at this moment in my life.
i do have to work 16 hours tomorrow, but it happens to us all. last night chris made me a candle light dinner of lobster, crab, shrimp, fish, and linguini in seafood sauce.
he treats me better than any man ever has. i don't know if id eserve it but i enjoy it and i couldn't handle life at this point without him to be there for me.

three dasy and counting...

Thu, 17 Jun 2004 20:31:58 GMT

Chris' surgery went well. "No complications" is what the doctor said.
I'm counting down the days until Goldie comes adn takes me to Melbourne. YAY!! Hopefully Tif will drive up with ehr so I can get a huge dose of both of them. Today I get paid and by MOnday I'll have my car again. Woohoo. I also am going to go and get a cell phone and rgister for my Summr B class at SFCC tomorrow. Busy Nickie. I just wish I didnt have to go to work right now but dirty dishes and jobs of prep are calling my name...

eww--im sick

Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:04:25 GMT

I have some nasty sinus infection-- i've had it for over a week and its still keeping me down. I slept all morning which i feel bad about because chris had pre-op today but he had his mom drive him there and im going to go over to his mom s office and see whats gonig on. i hope everythign is working out.
i watched monster last night adn it made me really sad and i had to go into the bathroom and sob for a lttle bit. it definitley put a amper on the evening.
i did see bobbie picking up trash yesterday though which helped to brighten my day. :)

the world is in a god-damn hurry

Wed, 19 May 2004 18:20:59 GMT

So many changes are about to occur in my life and all of them I'm grateful for. I'm also very apprehensive or nervous about them as well.

Changes

I'm moving... in with Chris
First off, I've never lived with someone I was romantically involved with. So it's very daunting that starting this week I will officially live with him. Not that I haven't spent the past two weeks at his house every night. But I have only known Chris for two weeks... so I'm very nervous to bring our very short relationship to that level. Today he gae me his key, on Saturday we went food shopping for us. I also paid his electric bill since we are now going to be sharing bills, responsibilities, and the such.
Chris and I are officially boyfriend/girlfriend
This happened on Sunday. I went to his job to get a ride hom,e from him and told his co-workers that his friend Nickie was waiting for him. I waited outside for him to get off. After he got off work he asked why I didnt wait inside for him and I explained that I wasn't trying to appear to be some bitchy kind of girlfriend and he told me that he considered me his girlfriend and that he told his coworkers to go and find his girlfriend so that I could sit inside. I do like Chris a lot but wow... this is all coming at me so fast. To be the girlfriend of this person that I think is wonderful... I didnt even expect a second date ever.
I got a job at Auto Zone
It starts next week. I'll be making six dollars an hour as a cashier. It's a day job but it means giving up my job at the church which I've had since November. It's better money than the Church but I will miss the atmosphere at St. Augustine's.
Qutting the Church
I gaev my notice today since Auto Zone starts next Tuesday. I told them I would go back to my old position as an Alternate Receptionist both for the extra money and so that I won't leave the church behind completly. I also told them that I would come in and continue to do Data Processing on my days off.
I got a job at Emilliano's Cafe
Its a night job, a full time night job. I will be making 6.25 an hour washing dishes. It's actually the same job Chris got last week but he wa smoved to prep yesterday and so yesterday when I went in to drop Chris off for work I was given his old job. I hope both working and living with Chris will not cause too many problems, but hell, I'm going to be makign bank in a few sort weeks. Yay for income!!
I'm going to be getting rid of my cats
I can't afford their medical care, nor my own. Chris' apartment doesnt' allow pets. Therfor I have to get rid of them. I'm sad to do it but honestly they can have a home where their owners can afford to pay for food, medical attention, toys and all of those things I cannot pay for.

So that is the whirlwind that is Nickie's life.

Oh-- and Tif... I love you back. I miss you as well.
Goldie--see above message.
Kyle-- I'm worried about you kiddo-- be safe.xox
Elissa-- you need to come and see me or something. Or leave me your dad's number in the comments section and congratulations on the SFCC article!!!!

i'm not sleeping anymore

Fri, 14 May 2004 14:14:37 GMT

Yay for pay day! I get paid today which is awesome beause if my check is big enough then I will be going to Melbourne tonight to get my car.
I've been really sick the past couple of days. Really nauceous with a fever but for some reason I won't let myself just sit and relax. I went to work feeling like shit yesterday adn today and have still gone to the Shamrock everynight and last night I went to Heath's shindig at his house. It sucks thought because I spent a good twenty minutes in the bushes at CHecker's last night throwing up all the food and a lot of the bile in my stomach. This morning Sean said he felt sick so I'm wondering if its some kind of bug going all around.
I hope hope hope hope I have enough money to go to Melbourne. Goldie said Chris and I can stay at her place and my mom already said she'd make me baked chicken with stuffing and green beans. Home cooked meals are few and far in between nowadays. In fact I haven't cooked food in a good two weeks or so and Chris lives off of resteraunt food. My mouth is already watering thinking about the possibility of my mom's cooking.
Plus CHris and I will go to the beach and I'll see Tif and go to the Sun Shizzope and all those other things I've wanted to do for the better part of a year. See my puppies, see my brothers and sister.... sigh.
Cheryl needs to bring my check down!

do i need more hormones?

Thu, 06 May 2004 20:03:07 GMT

SO I got back onto birth control today which is annoying as all fuck but in the end with the way things are heading it is a good idea. I just hope it doesnt make me gain weight or wig out and be all pissy. I can't wait until the male birth control pill comes out on the market. That will be a relief.
I've been working crazy hours at the church in the past couple of days and today won't be any exception. I plan on working atleast six hours if not eight. It's all good though because I need the money so that I can do all those things I need money to do.
I went to JOhn's goodbye thing last night. It was really chill and I saw a lot of cool kids but I was really tired and wanted to go and curl up with my boy. So thats what I did.
On one final note-- I really enjoy lamenating things at work. I don't know why but its fun to watch the plastic melt onto the paper and in the end everything is smooth and shiny. :)

Tue, 04 May 2004 21:16:33 GMT

i met a totally wonderful guy who I have spent the past three days with. hee's nice and sweet and smells good. he's also a good kisser. ;-) i love feeling this happy. yay for boys who want to spend all day and night with me. well yay for this boy atleast.

Sun, 25 Apr 2004 20:59:17 GMT

-septum closed up
-moving away from gainesville
+the lead singer of tantric (the band that arose out of days of the new) tried to make out with me
+saw one less reason and tantric
-didn't go camping
-hate the world today
-hate the way things are going with having to move and leave everythign and start over
-hate the way i am drunk
-h a t e